World News @lemmy.world alphacyberranger @lemmy.world 2y ago

Putin's colonel killed in drone strike while mowing lawn at his Russian residence

www.express.co.uk /news/world/1807255/vladimir-putin-colonel-killed-drone-strike-mowing-lawn

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By Ukraine or Russia?
- Actually a legit question.
  
  No it'zz not.
- Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work
  
  Must have been Russia. They dislike anything that is anti-corruption.
  
  I'd be willing to bet that their anti-corruption police are just as corrupt as their normal police.
  
  I'm guessing that these corruption police are just for appearances, or to be used to get rid of anything that Putin himself labels as "corruption", since they work for him.
  
  But since everyone is corrupt in Russia, anti-corruption means you can go after whoever you want to get out of the way.
- I’m surprised he didn’t fall out of a window while mowing lawn. It’s anybody’s guess at his time.
- Yes.
- Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work at his country cottage in Shchetinovka, Russia - just 1,000ft from the Ukraine border.
  
  If he was with the anti-corruption police, it might have been someone in the military (with access to drones) that he was investigating for corruption.
  
  Or, and this might be a crazy theory, if he was only 1k feet from the Ukrainian border, maybe, just maybe, Ukraine got him, since he would be a high profile target and Russia is currently at war with Ukraine. He worked for Putin, so despite the "anti-corruption" title, the chances of him actually going after real corruption is slim to none. "Corruption" in this case probably just means "whoever Putin is mad at atm". Even if he was killed by his own team for whatever reason, the one behind it would most likely be Putin himself.
- Alexei Chernykh of Russia's anti-corruption police
  
  Who knows but he probably had many enemies in his own team.
- Man it would suck to be in any sort of military or political position there. Never knowing from day to day who you are going to piss off next or what window you are going to get pushed out of.
- The Spanish Inquisition
  
  Well I guess nobody expected that.
I hope he had just started mowing, man that would suck to mow for an while then get vaporized.
- I don’t know, a lawn with just a small portion mowed and the rest standing tall? That shit would haunt me in my own afterlife.
  
  The knife missile could take care of both problems at once.
  
  Here's how I picture it. Half way through in the middle of the row with a 1 to 2 root crater marking the transition between the neat grass and the unmowed grass
- "phew. Last strip...blyat"
- Organic fertilizer
finishes mowing

Regular Orc: "Looks great! Just need to finish the edging with the weed-gets vaporized"

Ghost Orc realizing his edging will remain undone for eternity: blyat
- Hopefully the HOA fines out...
  
  In Russia HOAs work differently. Basically the only thing they do is managing water distribution(pipes) and other infra. Except electricity, this done by distribution company.
  
  Municipality on the other hand will eat you ass uncooked if they find Sosnovsky Hogweed on your property.
- Uhh, it was financial police, not military or regular police. Basically office worker, that poorly does own job(considering scale of corruption in Russia).
- I bet you used to call arabs towel heads. Im just an orc to you. Oh wait no Im ukrainian. That means im a special boy.
  
  Waaaaaaaaaaa. sniff sniff Mom! A guy online called someone else online a fictional monster, and now I'm upset! Come hug me, because I'm easily emotionally triggered and a shithead!
  
  Aww, are you jealous of the Ukrainians who are being invaded by your country?
Kbin showing a fucking Manga as preview is just hillarious lol
- WTF is up with the random preview images anyway?
  
  It's a bug that I saw described in detail at some point. Under a specific set of circumstances (I don't know what those are) it shows the thumbnail from some other submitted link.
- I… don’t suppose you have a screenshot? Lol
  
  https://kbin.social/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/1f/41/1f41aa86e7c894ec62976f96e7e41967497e304b62ce4456c74194167feb6ea5.webp
- Maybe a hash collision or something
- I’m getting a lemmy vs Reddit meme shitpost on artemis.camp
- LMAO, it's true.
I see the KGB stopped trying to be subtle about it
- Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it's dangerous to work for Putin
  
  I'm guessing Ukraine or Putin doing it to make it look like Ukraine.
Just to complete story:

He was working at Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption, DCECaC(УБЭПиК) for short. Basically financial police.

He was killed by bomb dropped from drone, not by kamikaze drone. It doesn't look like what Ukrainians would do.
- It doesn’t look like what Ukrainians would do.
  
  I've watched tons of grenade drops from drones on the old site. What about this seems like not something Ukraine would do?
  
  Because they drop grenades on their territory and use kamikaze drones on Russia. And again, financial police? They could spend grenade much better.
TBH, I thought this was an Onion headline at first.
In soviet Russia drone mows you - down
Site shows a 404 with a large video ad for a money laundering scam?
- Fixed it.
  
  Could you try fixing it to a link that isn't to a tabloid shitrag? 😂
  
  Works, thanks!
  
  Dead link for me.
Meanwhile, in Belarus, Lukashenko is reconsidering his career aspirations. Maybe being Colonel in Polish army would be safer.

Edit: wrong word fixed (bring -> being)
Not the onion
Two can play the plausible deniability game.
Terrorist putler is cleaning house.
Dudes house was a 1000 feet away from the border?
- Fucking ballsy to just be hanging out 300 yards from the border of a country you're at war with like, "This lawn ain't gonna mow itself!"
You can do it. We can help. Home Depot
- You misspelled Home Despot.
- Ya missed the pun of Drone Depot.
  
  It was waiting for you, m’lord.
- The Home Depot theme plays in the background of the drone footage
When is Ukraine going to release the video of this one.

Assuming it was Ukraine that did it.

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